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Video #679
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Video #649
Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.
World Champion Hou Yifan gives a memorable Masterclass followed by questions from the audience. A remarkable interview hosted by the eloquent Tournament Director Stuart Conquest.
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Video #678Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.IM Anthony Saidy Lecture at the 2014 Las Vegas International Chess Festival. Saidy looks at some of his games against Bobby Fischer and then does a Q&A session with the audience.IM Anthony Saidy LectureMost Recent Videos (in order of appearance)Carlsen's Top TipsMagnus Carlsen Recaps the World ChampionshipChessBase Magazine #162London Chess Classic 2014A History of Chess OpeningsIM Hjorth vs. IM SolomonPaul Morphy vs Adolf AnderssenKasparov-Karpov, Lyon 1990Interview with Alex DunneA Fork, A Spoon, and A KnightInnovation in the Marshall … [Read more...]

Video #675Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.GM Boris Alterman investigates the Frankenstein-Dracula variation in the Vienna Opening. This particular hair-raising exchange sacrifice was given it's ghoulishly Gothic title by correspondence guru Tim Harding, who wrote many articles about it during the late 1970s (see the ChessCafe Archives-ed.). He explained that it is so-called because it is terrifying for both sides, and, much like those two famous gentleman of the night, has an incredible facility for rising - theory-wise at least - from the grave.Alterman's Frankenstein-DraculaMost Recent … [Read more...]

Video #673Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov playing chess for World Title, with various shots of Smyslov being crowned with laurels and being greeted by young chess players.Smyslov World Chess ChampionMost Recent Videos (in order of appearance)2014 Aronian vs Nakamura BlitzNYPD Plays ChessCarlsen's Top TipsMagnus Carlsen Recaps the World ChampionshipChessBase Magazine #162London Chess Classic 2014A History of Chess OpeningsIM Hjorth vs. IM SolomonPaul Morphy vs Adolf AnderssenKasparov-Karpov, Lyon 1990Interview with Alex DunneA Fork, A Spoon, and A … [Read more...]

Video #672Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955 in London) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician. He is one of England's strongest chess players and once was in the world's top ten.John Nunn's Chess SacrificesMost Recent Videos (in order of appearance)2014 Aronian vs Nakamura BlitzNYPD Plays ChessCarlsen's Top TipsMagnus Carlsen Recaps the World ChampionshipChessBase Magazine #162London Chess Classic 2014A History of Chess OpeningsIM Hjorth vs. IM … [Read more...]

Video #671
Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.
Chess grandmaster Nigel Short has been crtiticised for appearing to say that women are not as well suited to the game as men.
Women Are Worse Players Than Men
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